How to Get Published

Location: Rose O’Neill Literary House

January 30, 2014

Literary publisher and author Mary Biddinger will offer advice “from the inside out” at the Lit House February 11.

CHESTERTOWN, MD— Author, editor, and professor Mary Biddinger will come to the Rose O’Neill Literary House on Tuesday, Feb. 11 to provide insight into the world of publishing. Her talk, “Literary Publishing from the Inside Out: Advice for Publishing Your Own Work, and the Work of Others,” will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Literary House, 407 Washington College.

Mary Biddinger is the founder and editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Barn Owl Review and co-editor of The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics (U Akron Press, 2011). She is assistant chair of the English department at the University of Akron, where she teaches literature, poetry writing, and literary publishing.

Biddinger received a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, an MFA in Poetry from Bowling Green State University, and a PhD in English from the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Her publications include the poetry collections Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007), Saint Monica (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), O Holy Insurgency (Black Lawrence Press, 2013) and A Sunny Place with Adequate Water (Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming 2014).

The event is hosted by the Rose O’Neill Literary House and coordinated by 2013 Literary House Summer Intern Aileen Gray ’14.

The Mary Wood Fellowship at Washington College is awarded biannually to an emerging female writer—in poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction—who has published one book. For the Spring 2014 Mary Wood Fellowship, applications will be accepted through Friday, March 15, 2013.